89 Quotes About Lolita

She showed a fierce insatiable curiosity for my past. She desired me to resuscitate all my loves so that she might make me insult them, and trample upon them, and revoke them apostately and totally, thus destroying my past.

Yes, "Lolita" is beautiful. But yes, it's also terrible. We can hold both in our hands.

She combined a cool forwardness -the overflow of what I think is called “poise”- with a shyness and sadness that caused her detached way of selecting her words to seem as unnatural as the intonation of a professor of “speech.

And I still have other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain.

I often reread passages of "Lolita" for its exquisite language. To me, "Lolita" has no message, no purpose, other than to exist as a marvel of literary creation. It has wit, intelligence and style. It pointedly makes no attempt to serve a higher moral purpose, and previous attempts by critics to find one have proven ludicrous. The annotated edition is accompanied by a brilliant afterword by Nabokov that is a lucid reminder of the pure joy of writing, its interplay with life.

... бидний харах мэдрэмжээсээ ямагт хамаагүй доогуур үнэлж байдаг аливааг хүртэж мэдрэх чадвар маань барагтай бол арилж алга болохгүйгээр үл барам амьдралын хамгийн хүнд үед үнэн бодит байдлын хамгийн чухал бөгөөд цорын ганц үнэн, зөв хэмжүүр болж өгдөг ажээ.

Gaston Godin, [...], had me gewaarschuwd dat het wel eens zo'n instelling zou kunnen blijken waar meisjes wordt geleerd, [...] 'lekker te ruiken in plaats van hun hersens te gebruiken'.

The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehensible to the matter-of-fact, crude, standard-brained youngsters of today.

Бид зөвхөн үзэл санааны ертөнцөд төдийгүй, эд зүйлсийн хорвоод амьдарч байна. Бодит туршлагагүй хоосон үг ямар ч утга учиргүй.